Kohon Quits Job at San Fernando

Ken Kohon, the cross-country coach at San Fernando High for the past five years and the boys’ track coach for the last two seasons, has resigned from those positions to teach in the aerospace magnet program at Westchester High.

Kohon, 47, guided the Tigers to five consecutive North Valley League boys’ titles in cross-country, and Oved Aguirre won the 1989 City Section title under his tutelage.

Westchester’s proximity to Kohon’s home in Playa del Rey played a big part in his decision.

“I’ve been driving to the Valley all these years,” Kohon said. “Now, I’ll be able to walk to work.”

Kohon, a 1963 graduate of Poly High, will not coach cross-country or track during his first year at Westchester, but he could return to those sports in the future.

His successor at San Fernando has not been named.

Baseball

The California Bears of Glendale won the Mickey Mantle World Series championship with a 1-0 victory over Cincinnati on Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Right-hander Gerald de la Pena of Hoover High pitched a one-hitter with four walks and Robby Glenn of Alemany High delivered an infield single in the bottom of the seventh to score Jimmy Landress of Granada Hills High with the only run.

The Bears, 15- and 16-year-olds from area high schools, enter the Junior Olympics today in Beaumont, Tex.

Edgar Nava tripled in a run and then scored in the third inning, helping Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks to a 3-2 victory against Riverton (Utah) in a losers’ bracket game of the Babe Ruth Regional World Series in Elk Grove, Calif.

Chris Herbert and Juan Montes each had two hits for Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks, which will play at 5 p.m. Thursday against the winner of today’s game between Belmont, Calif., and Glendale, Ariz.

Tim Stange, 28, a former player at Cal Lutheran and in the Boston Red Sox organization, has been named baseball coach and athletic director at the West Valley Christian School in West Hills.

Softball

Nancy Evans of Hoover High recorded five victories in the American Softball Assn. Nationals at Visalia last week. Evans pitched for the Panthers, a team of girls 18 and under from throughout the country.

The Panthers went 7-0 in the tournament.

Evans, who will attend Arizona in the fall, yielded 11 hits and had 53 strikeouts in 29 innings. She also had eight hits in 15 at-bats.

Wrestling

Moorpark College has scheduled a wrestling clinic featuring two championship wrestlers on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Serge Mezheritsky, a two-time state runner-up at Moorpark who was named All-American in NCAA Division I competition last spring, and Gerry Abas, a two-time NCAA All-American and national junior freestyle champion in 1990, are scheduled to participate.

Registration fee is $25.

Information: 805-378-1457.

Names in the News

Christina Jager of Lancaster won a silver medal Sunday in speed skating in the Girls’ Junior Olympic Division of the California State Games at Ontario. . . . Tigran Shaginian of Glendale won a silver medal in fencing in the men’s epee division on Saturday.